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August 2014

2001: A Space Odyssey may not seem like a natal match for a comic series by Jack Kirby, but Kirby takes it and makes it his own, expanding on his own ideas of the mythology the source material never intended!

What If? and Elseworlds . . . stunning sagas of alternate realities that can’t, couldn’t, or shouldn’t exist! Ben explores one of those alternate realities by going back in time and opening the pages of What If? #19, which asks two questions (both have the same answer): “What if Spider-Man …

Jump in the Time Machine to cover date August 1977! Star Wars gets its second chapter, Mister Machine is born as a superhero in 2001’s penultimate issue, John Carter continues his swashbuckling ways, and the king of all monsters comes to the Marvel universe! Also, I dug up some interviews …

Where did Rocket Raccoon come from? Most people know him from a pretty big and fun movie, and some people know him from an epic run of the Guardians of the Galaxy comic, spun out of the cosmic event Annihilation events. But back in the 80s, he was just a …

HULK: HEART OF THE ATOM WRITERS: Harlon Ellison, Roy Thomas, Archie Goodwin, Len Wein, Bill Mantlo, Peter Gillis ARTISTS: Herb Trimpe and Sal Buscema (pencils)l; a ton of inkers and letterers and colorists So I took a look at the graphic novels shelves at my local comic shop and found …

“Spider-Verse” is a Marvel event starting during the fall of 2014. In this event, every Spider-Man from the entire Marvel multiverse will be featured during the course of the story. In order to prepare for this huge spider-centric event, one of the Comic Book Time Machine hosts, Matt Anderson, will be reading …